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It takes 2/3 of a yard of fabric to make a pillow case how many pillowcases can be made from 16 yards of fabric?
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It takes 2/3 of a yard of fabric to make a pillow case how many pillowcases can be made from 16 yards of fabric?

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x where x = the total number of pillow cases we can make set them equal to each other and use cross multiplication to solve 2/3 yds 16 yds
pillow case = x 2/3(x) = 16 x = 24 Pillow Cases
User Brunnerh
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16 * 2/3 = 10 Total Pillowcases

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